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Omelich, Carol L.; Covington, Martin V. – 1980
Under a mastery learning system students can take successive parallel tests with study interspersed between tests until they demonstrate a minimal level of competency. For most students, such procedures increase final performance, yet some may experience repeated subjective failure. Self-worth theory predicts that repeated failure in the face of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, College Students
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Ohta, Amy Snyder – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents a longitudinal study of teacher talk that examines the use of affective particles in the language of the university-level elementary Japanese as a foreign language classroom. Results reveal that affective particles are used far less frequently in the classroom language analyzed than in ordinary conversation and that significant…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, College Students, Epistemology